The OUFTI-1 team gratefully acknowledges the following sponsors for their financial support:
OUFTI-1 benefits from the strong expertise and the support of several laboratories of the University, namely :
OUFTI-1 benefits from the strong support of the amateur-radio community. Moreover, OUFTI-1 will benefit from amateur-radio frequency bands. The team wants to acknowledge the hams involved in our project, and the major ham-radio organizations:
- the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU)
- l'Union Belge des Amateurs-émetteurs (UBA)
- l'Union Francophone des Radio-Clubs (UFRC)
We are also pleased to collaborate with several industrial partners:
- Solar cells integration: EADS-Astrium, Ottobrunn, Germany
- High-performance solar cells: Azurspace Solar Power, Germany
- Thermal design and tests: Centre Spatial de Liege, Liege, Belgium
- PCBs realization: Deltatec, Liege, Belgium
- Mission analysis: Luxspace, Betzdorf, Luxembourg
- Attitude control: Open-Engineering, Liege, Belgium
- Telecommunications and software: Spacebel, Liege, Belgium
- Structural design: V2i, Liege, Belgium
- Electrical power system: Thales Alenia Space ETCA, Charleroi, Belgium
and with other engineering schools:
- Gramme Institute
- ISIL
- Haute Ecole Charlemagne (OUFTI-1 mock-up, see here)
- Université Catholique de Louvain
- HEPL - INPRES
The OUFTI-1 team also gratefully acknowledges the software providers:
- AGI (STK)
- ITP Engines UK (ESATAN, ESARAD)
- Dassault Systemes (CATIA)
- LMS-SAMTECH (SAMCEF)
- SPENVIS
We also want to thank:
- Francisco Lara, Haute Ecole Charlemagne, and Antonio Martinez, ULg (Mock-up, see here).
- Artur Scholz, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan (Test-Pod)
- EuroSpace Center (technical reviews, backup ground station,...)
- Fabricom GTI (Racks for the D-STAR repeater)
- Technifutur (Manufacturing)
- Alice Salmon (OUFTI-1 logo)